Sopranos DVDs

ok ive been having troubles burning sopranos dvds lately but ive gotten most of them fixed....this one has really stumped me....im trying to copy disc 2 of season 4 and for some reason i can get it compressed but i have an error everytime i try to burn it back to dvd....dvd shrink wont compress it enough so i was using xcopy 4.o to compress but it would come up with an error that a file was missing after i would put the blank disc in. so i take the video_ts files and burn them through nero. for some reason nero says the files are just barely too big to burn to a single dvd...but when i check the file size it is only 4.4gig.....any suggestions of how i can get these compressed files to burn back to dvd?

Well, you can only fit 4.38 gigs on a DVD5. It can be confusing, since they're listed as being 4.7 gigs, but its just a matter of the way the size is tabulated. But about your question, I backed up that disk using DVD Decrypter and DVD Shrink, and had no problems. When you go to shrink it using DVD Shrink, try removing the foreign language subtitle's and audio track, as well as the english audio track that you don't use, either the 5.1 or the 2channel track, and Shrink should be able to shrink it just fine.

I have had many problems backing up my Sopranos sets. Most recently, I was able to rip Season 3, disc 1 with DVDD, but Shrink could not encode it, getting hung up on the first analysis and generating a missing file error. The HDD version of the DVD plays flawlessly. I'm new to this, but I think that the Sopranos sets have some copy protect device that oftentimes isn't picked up by DVD43, Decrypter, et al. Anyone else?

I have backed up all four seasons of the Sopranos using DVD Decrypter and DVD Shrink and have had no problems other than 1 disk which was scratched and gave me a crc error, I returned that and had no problem afterward. The only problem is that so much compression is needed because of the length and menu but I did deep analysis and burned them slow 2x.

Arniebear, good to hear that DVDD and DVDSK got the job done. I think my problems are caused by scratched disks. I tried DVDD again with the previously unsucessful source disk. This time I used a brand new DVD drive, which seemed to help, because I was able to generate the HDD files with DVDD. However, when I applied DVDShrink, it couldn't get through the deep analysis without a read error and automatically aborted.

You say you can't get DVD shrink to shrink it enough. Are you using "deep analysis"? I remember one of my originals I backed up would go through the whole process, then give me back something like "the disk you're trying to copy to isn't large enough". I ran it back through using "deep analysis" and it worked fine.

I have made backups of seasons 2,3,and 4 using shrink to compress and burn with no problem. Burning at 8x using TY's and verbatim media. All backups were clean. Just get rid of the foreign language tracks. Plenty of compresion. No problems.

When it comes to backing up TV shows (episodics) I suggest spending a little money and getting the CloneDVD2 (by Elby) and AnyDVD (by Slysoft) combination. It makes easy work of TV show authoring techniques.

I'm having a problem with burning The Sopranos as well. I've gotten Discs 1-3 of Season 1 and Disc 1 of Season 2 ripped and burned without problem using DVD Decrypter and DVD Shrink. However, when I attempt to use DVD Decrypter to rip Disc 4 (s1) to my HD I get an error message telling me that I have an "I/O Error" with "Interpretation: Check Condition", "Interpretation: Report Key - Title Key (3)", and "Interpretation: No Seek Complete".

I managed to get every file but this particular one (VTS_04_2.VOB) ripped, but I've not been able to get past this point.

From what y'all have posted this is not a problem that most have had, so any help that I can get from you guys would be enormously appreciated. The thing that gets me is that I have the files for the episode (as it's a season finale there is only one episode on the disc with everything else being extras) but can't just copy those to a dvd using Nero and make it playable in my DVD player.

Anyone have any suggestions on how I can either get this problem fixed or make a DVD using the 3 files that are the movie and ignore the rest (but still have it playable in a standalone)?

I just backed up my Season 1, Disc 4. I let DVDD rip the entire disc to the HDD, then I pulled out the main title with the re-author tool in Shrink. I burned without compression. SOP. So it could be a scratched/damaged original.

Be sure to check the DVDD tutorials on setting the read error options.